On April 2, 2024, Governor Kim Reynolds signed Senate File 2095, the Iowa Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which became effective immediately. Iowa’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act (“RFRA”) is modeled on a similar law...more
On January 10, 2024, the Iowa Court of Appeals filed its opinion in Hampe v. Charles Gabus Motors, Inc., et al., which involved a former employee who was terminated for refusing to submit to a random workplace drug test....more
On October 29, 2021, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed into law legislation affecting the interplay between Iowa employers, employees, and COVID-19 vaccine requirements. Iowa’s new law, HF 902, sets up questions regarding...more
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In the fall of 2019, the Waterloo, Iowa City Council approved the state’s first “Ban the Box” ordinance. Generally speaking, that ordinance made it illegal for any employer to ask about an applicant’s criminal history on a...more
One of the last pieces of legislation the Iowa legislature sent to Governor Kim Reynolds’ desk for assured signature was a bill banning vaccine passports in Iowa. House File 889 contains several prohibitions regarding...more
This summer - on June 18, 2020 - the Iowa legislature passed and Governor Kim Reynolds approved SF 2338 to address a long-standing evidentiary issue concerning medical expenses stemming from Pexa v. Auto Owners Ins. Co., 686...more
This is the first part in a three part series exploring important changes to Iowa’s open meeting law.
Iowa’s open meeting law seeks to ensure that the basis and reasoning for governmental decisions are easily accessible...more
Warren County is governed by a three-member Board of Supervisors. The supervisors asked the Warren County Administrator to assist the Board in their stated goal of improving the efficiency of the county government. To that...more
On July 1, 2015, the Iowa legislature rolled out what is being heralded as its most significant medical liability reform of the past decade: enabling confidential “open discussions” between health care providers and patients...more
We have offices in 13 states, a headquarters in Iowa and a manufacturing facility in Alaska. Several employees have used our “open suggestion box” to request that we allow them to work through lunch so they can go home...more
Each year, we provide our employees with a Christmas bonus of varying amounts. We’ve always done this because we want to reward our employees for a hard year of work and also spread a bit of holiday cheer. We were recently...more